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This page is a historical record of the gold price in 5 May 2009, not the current price.See today's gold price (11 September 2026)
Gold closed at $903.70 per troy ounce on 5 May 2009, up $2.100 (0.23%) from the previous close of $901.60.
No earlier session that month closed above this level.
This close sat 9.92% below the highest gold close recorded up to that date, set on 2008-03-18.
Metal value only, before dealer margins and fabrication.
Twelve months earlier gold traded around $872.30, making this a +3.60% move year on year.
Figures in this section are shown in USD, independent of the currency selected above.
Gold closed at $903.70 per troy ounce on 5 May 2009. That is $2.10 higher than the previous close of $901.60, a move of 0.23%.
The gold price rose on 5 May 2009, gaining $2.10 (0.23%) against the previous session's close of $901.60.
At $903.70 per troy ounce, one gram of pure gold was worth about $29.05 on 5 May 2009. A troy ounce is 31.1034768 grams.
Scrap value follows purity, so on 5 May 2009 18k gold was worth about $21.79 per gram and 14k about $16.95 per gram, against $29.05 for pure 24k. These are melt values before any dealer margin.
The gold-to-silver ratio closed at about 67.4 on 5 May 2009, meaning one ounce of gold was worth roughly 67.4 ounces of silver.
It closed 9.92% below the highest close on record up to that date, which was set on 2008-03-18.